Today in the Pushkin Museum to them. Alexander Pushkin a regular exhibition of the work. Titian masterpiece on display «Portrait of an unknown with gray eyes»

Today, the Pushkin Museum in them. Alexander Pushkin opens exhibition of works, continuing the tradition of friendship with the visitors masterpieces of world art.

At this time, it «Portrait of an unknown with gray eyes» brush great Venetian Renaissance master Titian (1488/90-1576). Portrait, kindly provided by the Italian partners, brought to Moscow from Palatine Gallery (Palazzo Pitti), one of the greatest treasures of Florence.

This work included all the classical works on the history of art in our country to be known as the «Portrait of Ippolito Riminaldi», lawyer of Ferrara. However, for the first time it is mentioned only in the XVII century, the inventory of the Palazzo Pitti in 1698 as a portrait of Pietro Aretino, a close friend Titian. Since then, there was a lot of versions on the cards depicted a man, one time he even considered a portrait of a young Englishman. Many questions raised and the date the portrait. Previously it was thought that it was written in the years 1540-1545, but after the completion of restoration works in 1999 which released pictures of the surface layer of darkened varnish, there are strong arguments for early dating of the portrait, namely, the mid-1520's.

All of these and many other issues related to the picture, create a special atmosphere around the mystery and enigma. Doubt remains that this is one of the greatest works in the history of world art.

Titian is in the galaxy of the great masters of the High Renaissance, with Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo. All of his life and work were associated with Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic, whose captivating appearance and untold wealth has long excited the imagination of Europeans. Art here has become the main mode of art, perhaps because only the color of the Venetians managed to pass around their almost incredible reality of the weaving movement of water and elusive to the eye vibrations of color and light.

Titian, the most celebrated painter in Venice, was particularly brilliant portrait. According to Vasari, «there was such a famous man, ruler or noble ladies, who would not have been depicted Titsianom». But the «Portrait of an unknown with gray eyes» holds a special place in his oeuvre, as one of the great masterpieces of Titian, not only, but throughout the world of painting.

exhibition in the Pushkin Museum to them. Alexander Pushkin is open from 7 April to June 7, 2009.

Source: museum.ru /gmii